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 Posted: Fri, 6th May 2011 07:56 Post subject: Game developer David Braben creates a USB stick PC for $25 |
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garus
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| Posted: Fri, 6th May 2011 11:19 Post subject: |
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| Posted: Fri, 6th May 2011 11:59 Post subject: |
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ixigia
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| Posted: Fri, 6th May 2011 13:10 Post subject: |
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That's nothing short of amazing 
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| Posted: Fri, 6th May 2011 13:10 Post subject: |
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Shit, I'mma gonna buy one just for the lulz ^_^
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| Posted: Fri, 6th May 2011 13:16 Post subject: |
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Me too... if they offer this in europe of course
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| Posted: Fri, 6th May 2011 13:17 Post subject: |
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I don't see why not, Braben is a UK developer and FrontierDevelopments/Raspberry Pi is a UK foundation.
He's also completely, 100%, accurate about ICT pushing CompSci out of schools. I graduated in 1997 and even then there were NO courses for CompSci... no introduction to programming, no proper courses detailing the hardware and mechanics, just office-type tuition such as Word/PowerPoint/Excel. Everything I know about computers was self-taught and with some help from my father, who was a CAD engineer for Rolls Royce, designing jet engines for their aircraft. He taught me everything I knew about DOS and system building, which I went on to teach myself ... school just wanted me to learn how to create pie charts >_>
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Werelds
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| Posted: Fri, 6th May 2011 13:28 Post subject: |
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Even I at just 25 didn't have any courses with that stuff until the last two years in secondary school. By then I was well beyond what I got there so meh.
Fun stuff btw, you see this happening more often nowadays because the chips are so easy/cheap to get and well-supported at the same time. That, and I love Frontier Developments. Lost Winds is fantastic - so much, that even my dad (whose last videogames were 7th Guest and 11th Hour) played it from start to end on their Wii.
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dsergei
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| Posted: Fri, 6th May 2011 13:31 Post subject: |
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I graduated in 2002 and we had proper CompSci. We went from some weird learning programming langauge to basic to pascal to c++. My graduation project was a simple grid turn based strategy game on c ;o
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| Posted: Fri, 6th May 2011 14:36 Post subject: |
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I had compsci in the 5th grade for the first time (just 1 year if I remember correct). We did some basic programming and Iwas way ahead of the others at that time... After that we had computer courses in the 12th grade. And our teacher learned the stuff with us together. So I had my first experience with delphi and java there.
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| Posted: Fri, 6th May 2011 14:38 Post subject: |
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garus
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| Posted: Fri, 6th May 2011 14:40 Post subject: |
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Przepraszam
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| Posted: Fri, 6th May 2011 16:11 Post subject: |
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In high school I took this one class..
it went something like that
/html
this class is fucking useless and boring
//html
and then in college, i took another noob class and it went like that
{public static void main{
System.out.println(" is this class for real?")}}
and I probably learned more programming than my proffesor
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| Posted: Fri, 6th May 2011 19:45 Post subject: |
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dsergei
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tonizito
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| Posted: Fri, 6th May 2011 20:12 Post subject: |
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Epic stuff!
| boundle (thoughts on cracking AITD) wrote: | | i guess thouth if without a legit key the installation was rolling back we are all fucking then |
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| Posted: Fri, 6th May 2011 20:46 Post subject: |
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nouseforaname
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| Posted: Sat, 7th May 2011 00:18 Post subject: |
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Hate to be a dick but isn't "immersive" CS more appropriate in post-secondary education? I remember how brutal most of my high school computer classes were in terms of 95% of the class basically being retarded.
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| Posted: Sat, 7th May 2011 00:21 Post subject: |
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Of course, but it would have been nice to get a foot in the door as part of my national curriculum, rather than having to just wing it and then go onto college.
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nouseforaname
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| Posted: Sat, 7th May 2011 00:24 Post subject: |
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^^ you don't really learn much in HS anyways, can you imagine all the dolts who could also have their foot in the door vs. someone who bothered to learn on their own?
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garus
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Frant
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| Posted: Sat, 7th May 2011 00:46 Post subject: |
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Can you imagine the smallest yet most awesome media player around? 1080p output through HDMI, and software made by any linux programmer available?
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!
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| Posted: Sat, 7th May 2011 01:25 Post subject: |
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I want one of these thingies !!!
Basically I'd like to see an extended version of this with better specs, 2-3 usb ports, wifi etc. Like a tiny little netbook, without the screen and without keyboard.
@ sabin1981
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| Posted: Sat, 7th May 2011 01:34 Post subject: |
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| sabin1981 wrote: | | Site blurb says it's fine with 1080p30/h264. Obviously not perfect |
Not perfect?  Not like you will see 1080p60 or 4320p30 or 4320p60 ( ) are anywhere near us. 1080p30 high profile is roughly the Bluray spec at least, and at the hands of a capable codec writer(s), more can probably be squeezed in. |
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